The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1887-09-09
FLORIDA.
Palatka has no dentist at present.

Dr. Oliver Chamberlain, of Crescent City
died day or two ago.
The building of the new oyster factory al
Apalachicola is going up rapidly.
The Barlow Brick Company has its new
machinery up and ready for work.
The new opera house talked of for Pa
latka seems to have fallen through before il
got started.
The amount of lumber shipped from Apa-
lachicoia during the month of August was
| 5000, 900 feet.
1t is currently reported that another saw
mill will be built at Apalachicola before
many moons roll by.
The work of roofing the Alcazar at st.
Augustine is about completed The pool in
| the AlcaZar is in course Of construction.
NJ Holt was awarded the contract of fur
nishing $4,000 brick for the court house
| which will be commenced soon at DeFu-
MAX.
Lakeland is enthusiastic on the subject of
| cold storage, and 1000 of the So, 900
necessary for establishing it is already sub
scribed
| A pistol, lost by one Of Ponce de Icons
men while in ST. Augustine, was found a
few days since in the crack of an old house
in the old city.
Contractor Thompson recommended work
on the new Summerlin College, at Barlow,
| last Saturday, and the walls of the building
are rapidly ascending.
| Last Saturday it was estimated that there
were $50 logmen in Apalachicola, nearly all
| of whom took passage on the Hays for diff
ferent points along the river
The saimaker of the British bark William
| Leavett, now in quarantine at Pensacola,
committed suicide by hanging himself Mon
day and was buried last night.
1t is rumored on the streets of DeLand
that L. II. Eldridge, of Emporia, is con-
templating the establishment of a Republi-
can paper at DeLand. Mr.. Eldridge already
owns two papers in that county.
The Jacksonville, Tampa and Key West
railroad received and forwarded the first
orange shipment of the season Tuesday.
1t was from Putnam county, from the
grove of E. p. Hiser. of San Mateo.
1t is rumored that the Florida House, at
st. Augustine, will be torn down after the
coming season closes, and a magnificent
brick hotel erected on the lot. How this
building escaped the late confagration is a
wonder to every one.
The friends of ex- Marshal w. T. Hull, of
Barlow, recently presented him with
beautiful medal, design of a Maltese cross,
with the inscription Presented to w. T.
Hull, by his friends as a token of esteem.
Barlow, Fla, July II, 1SS7n
A series of meetings has been arranged by
the temperance advocates of Orange county,
at which Hon. j. G. Speer and others will
address the people upon the local option
question. On Sept. IA the meeting will be
held in Orlando at the Opera House.
The McGill grocery store at Barlow was
closed by attachment last week Mr.. Nc
Gill is very sick at his Kentucky home, and
is unable at present to attend TO business.
| hut n
thinks all will be made straight in few
days
It has been reported at Concord that two
gentlemen of Falkstown, Ga, had a disa-
greenient about bale of cotton, and COM
meneed firing at each other with pistols,
and that both were instantly killed. Hays
was the name of one of the men, but the
name Of the other was not learned.
During the monthtof August there were
eleven cleafances of coastwise vessels from
Apalachicola. Tonnage, 4,57S; number of
men, 81. There were two clearances
of foreign vessels of 500 tons and Is men.
There was one foreign entrance of 264 tons
and men. There were four coastwise en-
frances, with tonnage of 1,520, and 80
men.
A law suit is pending at st. Augustine
between c. f. Hamblen and an Englishman
by the name of Davis over the price of
barrel of Portland cement, which is about
"a So Both parties have attorneys en-
ployed, and doubtless the price of several
barrels will be spent in the settlement
Davis claims that he did not receive the
cement, and Mr.. Hamblen's clerks claim
that he did, hence the suit
James Harden has recently purchased the
large saw, planning and grist mill from Dr.
S. p. Null, situated at Mulls Mills, and
Barlow, and also about 200 600 feet of fine
pine lumber. There is said to be more
sawed lumber on the grounds at the planning
mills than has ever been in Barlow at any
one time since 1t became town, but it is
being rapidly hauled off and turned into
dwelling and business houses.
Wallace Bruce, the poet, from Pough-
keepsie, N. Y, has bought and is improving
about ten acres of land in the suburbs of
DeFuniak, and is constructing several fish
ponds, using granite from South America
He will put in a marble fountain and ter
race. He has interested number of wealthy
New Workers in the enterprise, and will
make it one of the prettiest spots in the
State, as he intends TO erect a number of
Swiss cottages on his property.
While on her up trip last week very sin
gular attempt at escape by negro pris-
oner occurred ON the Thronateeska. The
steamer was between Chattahoochee and
Fort Gaines, and the prisoner while stand
dive and attempted to pass through the
small opening in the side of the steamer.
but the machinery came down upon him,
almost crushing the life out of him. His
skull was fractured, and his injuries may
prove fatal.
Capt J. N. Hooker, while on his recent
visit TO Parkers Island, on the Kissimmee
river succeeded in buying about |, 700 head
of cattle from Lewis H. Parker He also
bought Parker's Island or a large portion
of it, as a range for the cattle The island
is about seven miles long by three or four
wide, and is said TO be one of the finest cat
tie ranges in the State. +. T.. Skipper has
recently purchased 400 head of cattle from
Lewis II. Parker and Capt. Hooker, and
will enter into the cattle raising business ON
Parlier's Island.
A'madstone, taken from the stomach of a
deer, has been presented TO ex Gov. Walker,
of Tallahassee The stone is oblong In
shape, being an inch and a half in length,
and Of grayish color. One end tnpers TO
blunt point, while the other end is fiat,
with an aperture, from which may be seen
that the stone is filled with pithy sub
stance. This end is applied to the wound,
and its pithy centre is said TO absorb the
poison 1t is said the stone will adhere TO
the wound rs long as there is a particle of
the virus in the system.
At st. Augustine a negro boy, about IS
old .f.1 4